Arch-supporter.



M. F. CREAHAN.

ARCH SUPPORTER.

APPLlCATlON r1120 JULY 23. 1914.

1,134,108. Patnted Apr. 6, 1915.

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MICHAEL F. CREAHAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

ARCH-SUPPORTER.

Application filed July 23,

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL F. CREAHAN, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Arch-Supporters, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to what are known as arch supporters for the feet.

The object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class which may be conveniently placed in a shoe and held in the desired position by the pressure of the foot thereon, and which may be worn without discomfort and which involves the qualities of a cushion and the thickness of which may be increased or decreased as desired; and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class specified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of my improved arch support or pad; Fig. 2 a side view and indicating a shoe in dotted lines and showing the arch support therein; Fig. 3 a cross section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and ;Fig. t a view similar to Fig. 3 but showing a modification.

My improved arch supporter or instep pad comprises in its construction a bottom sheet a of leather which is designed to fit in and lays snugly on the bottom rear portion of a shoe as indicated in Fig. 2, and the form of which is the same as the form of the bottom, and back portion of the sole of the shoe, and the length of which is such that when the arch support, or pad, is in position in the shoe the sheet a will extend forwardly of the instep portion of the shoe as clearly indicated in Fig. 2. In connection with the sheet a, I also employ a pad member 12 having a straight or approximately straight inner side or face b and which fits, when the device is in use, beneath the arch of the foot, and fills the space under said arch. The front, back and outer' -side edges of the pad I) are curved 'as shown at Specification of Letters Yatent.

Patented Apr, 6, 1915.

1914. Serial No. 852,561.

b", b", and b or in. other words the front, back, and outer side edges consist of arsontinuous curved line, and the transverse width of the pad member 6 is approximately the same as the transverse width of the sole of the shoe under the arch of the foot, but when the pad I) issecured to the sheet a the straight, inner side face b thereof projects slightly inwardly of the bottom of the instep of the foot. The pad member b consists of a top sheet 6 and a bottom sheet I), and the bottom sheet 29 forms the front, inner side face 6 of the pad member, and said pad member is filled in as shown at b with a pad portion of cotton, wool, hairor any other suitable material, so as to give the pad member I) the qualities of a cushion.

The front, back and outer edges of the pad member 7) are stitched to the sheet a as indicated at 0 but between the pad member I) and the sheet a is an open pocket (Z and placed in the bottom of the pocket d is a partition sheet e of fiber board or any other suitable material, which is of slightlyle ss dimensions than the body of the pad member, and the form of which is indicated by the dotted line a in Fig. 1, and the front, back and outer edges thereof are stitched or otherwise secured to the sheet (1 along the dotted line 6 and beneath the sheet e is a supplemental pocket Placed in the pocket d over the sheet 6 are supplemental detachable sheets 7 and f of fiber board or other suitable material and which have the same form as the sheet 6, but are of less dimensions and the sheet 6 is of less dimensions than the sheet f, and the object of the sheets f .and f is to increase or decrease the thickness of the device, or the pad member and any desired number of said sheets may be employed, and by means thereof the pad member I) may be raised or lowered or be made of greater or less thickness as may be desired. 1 also pass through the sheet a preferably centrally of the pad member I), a tack or similar device 9, and in the supplemental pocket below the sheet 6 is placed a thin metal sheet or plate h which bears on the head of the tack g and forces said tack into clearly indicated in Fig. 2, and thus serves to hold the arch support or instep pad in proper position and to prevent its slipping either forwardly or backwardly.

The parts 6 and f which may e employed, form,

any desired number of as will be the sole of the shoe, as

understood,supplemental pad members and said parts may be composed of any desired material and may be of any preferred di- -mensions and various changes in and modifications of. the construction herein described may be made, within the scope of the appended claim, without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention what 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Let-. ters Patent, is y A foot arch support, comprising a main bottom sheet adapted to fit in the back bottom part of the shoe and beneath the arch of the foot and provided Withva flexible pad member of less dimensions than the bottom -v sheet and also adapted to fit beneath the arch of the foot and between which and the bot-- tom sheet is a pocket in which is secured a supplemental sheet of less dimensions than the pad member, and between which and the bottom sheet is a su plemental pocket, supplemental pad mem ers adapted to be inserted above said supplemental sheet and E. Cmssmm.

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